When you’ve been making guns for just short of 500 years — that’s half a millenium, folks — you learn a thing or two about manufacturing. Touring Beretta’s Gallatin, Tennessee factory northeast of Nashville makes that abundantly clear, even if you’re woefully ignorant about all things mechanical. One of the benefits of writing about guns … Read more
Congratulations to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Bay State’s legislature. They’ve finally succeeded in driving 750 additional jobs out of their state. Today, Smith & Wesson announced they will move their corporate headquarters to Tennessee. Why? As S&W put it, they’re clearing out “Due to changing business climate for firearms manufacturing in Massachusetts.” … Read more
“Red flag” confiscation laws are a legal abomination. By design, they deliberately eliminate due process protections by suspending an individual’s Second Amendment rights without a hearing (at least one where the targeted gun owner is present). Red flag laws, or gun violence restraining orders as they’re sometimes called, also eliminate the need for evidence, since … Read more
WATE of Knoxville, Tennessee breathlessly reports that HUNDREDS of red-clad Moms Demand Action members packed a hearing at the Volunteer State capital. The moms showed up against a proposal to make carry licenses more affordable for Tennesseans. The only problem for the local news outlet? WATE’s own video betrayed the ‘fake’ in their utterly fake … Read more
A Memphis woman was taken into custody and then released without charges following a defensive shooting in the parking lot of her apartment complex. The incident occurred at Brentwood Place Apartments (Sycamore View Road) around 6:30 in the morning on Thursday last week. The woman was alerted to the burglary by noise outside her window. When … Read more
Hot weather, hot lead, helicopters, attack dogs, gleeful gun writers and a bevy of badass ballistics. Day One of the Lucky Gunner Blogger Shoot (and they didn’t mean that literally) may not have been the Knob Creek machine gun shoot, but it wasn’t a day at my local gun range either. The Lucky Gunner Ammo … Read more
Q: How do you know the Post Office is hiring?
A: The flags are at half-mast.
Okay, while everyone groans and speculates on how tasteless and tacky that riddle is in the face of the news coming out of Tennessee that two postal workers have been shot, let’s remember that it’s times like this that black humor helps us deal with tragedy. And this has all the markings of another sensationalistic tragedy.
After the MORE button: the official press release from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety re: the termination of The Land of Enchantment’s concealed carry reciprocity agreement with Utah. Let me save you some reading-between-the-lines time. Firearms trainers from Utah (and Florida) have fanned out across the country, offering concealed carry courses to non-residents (including states without reciprocity, like New York). At the end of the four-hour-ish instruction, the educators give qualified attendees the magic piece of paper: a Utah concealed carry permit. They’re then good to stow in 17—sorry, 16—states: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Wyoming. What’s wrong with that? As far as I’m concerned, nothing. But Utah’s freelancers are taking food off the table of firearms instructors in New Mexico, who argue that the roving Utah instructors’ standards are below New Mexico’s. Really? TTAG will call New Mexico DPS on Monday to ferret out their exact justification. Much merriment is sure to ensue.
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